Design

A new exhibition on the Italian design group at MK Gallery solemnly reminds us that the 1980s design movement was a commercial and ideological failure 

With working from home on the rise, and climate change afoot, what does the house of the future look like?

Zoffany’s new collection of wallpapers draws from an important chapter in British design history

Marking fifty years of his brand this year, the celebrated designer talks about spending lockdown as the sole occupant of his office - and his plans for the future

Designers Experimental Jetset, Kellenberger–White, Fraser Muggeridge and historian Emily King on the enduring influence of the Dutch design legend

An exhibition at Vitra Design Museum documents the movement’s influence on commercial products

The menstrual cup is now part of the London museum’s ongoing project which responds to major design moments

Working across art, design and architecture, the trio make community-focused work that aims to have a long-term impact on an area and its inhabitants

On the 40th anniversary of ‘Unknown Pleasures’, the artist discusses the inspiration behind his iconic designs

What the frieze editors have been reading this week

The controversial addition to Manhattan’s west side is emblematic of the triumph of digital spectacle over real experience

The London firm’s bold, contextually astute renovation of the 1990s gallery pays homage to the functional forms of Britain’s ur-New Town

‘His work opened a pathway to design for me that no architectural school or practice could’

Has the great designer lost sight of what it means to make things that matter?

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

A swathe of renovations and extensions across the UK capital suggests an appetite for a different kind of architecture

‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

The New York department store honours a longstanding relationship between contemporary art and window dressing

Seeking to address the inadequacies of current educational models is an urgent and ambitious task, but this show’s answers fall into nostalgia

If the new V&A is Dundee’s public face to the world, it underscores the motto of the city’s famous resident: ‘think global act local’